NIA busts 'IS module' in Hyderabad, arrests five (Third Lead)

Updated on : Jun 29,2016 9:22 pm

Hyderabad/New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday busted an alleged Islamic State (IS) terror module in Hyderabad by arresting five suspected sympathisers and detaining six others.

The NIA said the suspects included five persons against whom the anti-terror agency had registered a First Information Report on June 22 with regard to an emerging fundamentalist group affiliated to the IS.

The case was registered under Sections 121 (waging war against the government), 121-A (conspiring to commit certain offences against the state) and 122 (collecting arms and ammunition with the intention of waging war against the government) of the Indian Penal Code.

Sections 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act and Sections 18-B (conspiracy), 38 (part of terrorist organisation), 39 (supporting terrorist organisation) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act were also added to the FIR.

Some of the arrested youth were practicing with airguns in Bandlaguda and Chandrayangutta areas, the NIA source said.

An NIA official said Mohammed Ibrahim and Habib Mohammed were identified as the main suspects.

Ibrahim, through his Facebook accounts, was allegedly trying to recruit youth for the IS by using internet and other modes of communication.

NIA officials were questioning the accused at an undisclosed location to unravel the entire plot.

On the other hand, the parents of the arrested youth reached the NIA office in Begumpet and claimed their innocence. They also demanded a meeting with the detained suspects.

"During questioning of the suspects, it was found that the new module was getting instructions from some unidentified handlers from a foreign country," the NIA official said.